San Jardin raid

The San Jardin raid occurred in the summer of 1995 when a force of Colombian National Policemen under General Rosso Jose Serrano, assisted by DEA agents Javier Pena, Chris Feistl, and Daniel Van Ness, launched a pre-dawn raid on a hotel in San Jardin, Cali, Colombia with the goal of capturing Cali Cartel godfather Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela. The policemen forced their lawyer to sign off on a warrant allowing for them to search the residence, but the Cali-connected local police responded to the incident as the operation continued. The good police worked for hours to find Rodriguez, and they nearly found him as they demolished a shower wall. However, the local attorney forced the DEA agents to put down the hammer after saying that they were defying Colombian law, and Rodriguez escaped, albeit with a wound in his arm from a drill used by the DEA men. Rodriguez discovered that there was a leak within his cartel, and he was convinced that Gustavo Calderon and Carlo Cordova were responsible. He would later be captured in the Hacienda Buenos Aires raid on 6 August 1995.